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Charles Ward

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Actor 1952–1986 On stage 1978

Charles Ward (1952–1986) was an American dancer who came from American Ballet Theatre to feature prominently in Bob Fosse's Dancin' (1978), where his on-stage and off-stage partnership with Ann Reinking became one of the production's celebrated tensions.

On stage 1 production

1978 Dancin' Broadhurst Theatre · Original · directed by Bob Fosse 1,774 perf.

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  • Cast: Sandahl Bergman, Rene Ceballos, Christopher Chadman, Wayne Cilento, Vicki Frederick, Edward Love, Ann Reinking, Charles Wardebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Sex was a predominant feature in Fosse’s choreography, and “The Dream Barre,” a number in which Ann Reinking and Charles Ward were in particularly graphic sexual positions, bothered me. I mentioned this to Fosse, who dismissed me, saying, “The matinee ladies are going to love it.”ebooks/Schoenfeld, Gerald/Mr. Broadway_ The Inside Story of the Shuberts, the Shows, and the Stars - Gerald Schoenfeld.txt
  • The baroque emotional atmosphere took a turn for the rococo as Ann Reinking fell in love with Charles Ward, a singularly gifted dancer who had come to Dancin’ by way of the American Ballet Theater, making him an object of Fosse’s envy and admiration well before Ward’s romance with Reinking—who may or may not have still been seeing Fosse—w…ebooks/Wasson, Sam/Fosse - Sam Wasson.txt
  • Charles Ward (L) and company Top: Timothy Scott, Hinton Battle, Gary Flannery in “Dancin’ ”theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1978-79, v. 35 (Willis).txt

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